Chris-Aldin's movie Reviews on Newgrounds

[Dawn Of Clock]

Creative! Cool to see how it all started!

This submission was great for a number of reasons, one being that it is one of the few great submissions today. I may have seen about 6 that I consider to be good and this is definitely one of them.

To start, I think the idea is very original and as far as I know this is the first movie which demonstrates how the Clocks, (not just the ClockCrew themselves) as a race started. Basically the idea has some seriousness to it, with some traditional Clock humour thrown in. The visuals were very nice, especially the setting sun because the colours looked almost as good as one can look in flash. The birds flying against the sunset and the sky was a very nice touch. The character design was good, but i think the movie could have done with some different looking characters as well. The song choice was only good in the name of humour :P.

Overall this was a nice story of how the race of clocks started, and how appropriate to submit on the Crew's birthday. Happy Clock Day!

BunnyClock responds:

ddd

[The Sound of Silence]

It was decent, and a little dull.

The whole collab was just okay in my opinion. No one part was extremely bad, and no one part was extremely good either, but they were on average in between the two. That being said, this was worth watching and it did seem to have some effort.

The graphics were decent overall, with some that could be better. Sometimes they just didnt have enough to them to be totally satisfying. The song choice was good, and you guys almost managed to work with the song to create an eerie-type of mood. This song has been used in a similar submission as i'm sure you know, but you guys still made it your own by using various clocks instead of one person. The effort definitely seemed to be there so I commend you for that.

Overall this was a good submission. One problem is that to call it collaboration, usually many artists are involved not only a few. With more artists in a collab, you will see more animating styles and various unique opinions on the lyrics. Good job though and Happy Clock Day!

Anchor-Clock responds:

Thanks for the review.

[Clockday Murder Pt 1]

Funny, too bad for the abrupt ending.

The movie and the storyline were pretty good, and its a shame you weren't able to finish the whole movie for this year's Clockday. Whatever there was of this movie, it was well done.

The graphics were good, I found the evil character looked very cool. The use of black and red on him made him look truly evil. The evil dude's true form looked even cooler than he did at first. The sound was just as good and as odd as in any Clock submission, though you did have some screams and yells that were hilarious coming from clocks.

Overall this was a great submission for ClockDay, and again its a shame that you could not finish on time. Well if you do submit the sequel next time this special day comes around ill be looking forward to it! Happy Clock Day!

Ivanovitch responds:

I actually signed up to the Clock Crew as "DemonHeartClock".
I just had to make fun of it someday or the name would haunt me forever.

Thanks for the thoughtful review!

[SleepEasy]

Nice, the storyline was awesome.

Another amazing Clock Day 2007 submission, this definitely deserves its spot on the front page. This is an exciting day, but submissions with real effort like this one still dont go unnoticed.

The Clock Crew submissions usually have a certain smooth and simple animation style to them, this seemed to sort of be a mix of two styles :The clock crew's and your own. During the dreams the animation almost seemed to be FBF and outside of the dreams in the real world the traditional Clock Crew animating style seemed to be present. The storyline and how you executed it were actually my favourite part about this whole movie. The story itself was interesting but then you added in some typical clock humour and goofiness.

Overall this was a great submission for today. I hope you can keep up the good work after today as well! Happy Clock Day!

RupeeClock responds:

I know what you mean, my past two clockday movies did get frontpaged yet they got little attention, not over 25000 views at all until much later.

The actual animation in the dreaming is part FBF, part tweening, it depends on what needed to be animated (some circumstances really call for tweens.)

Anyhow, I'm glad you liked every part of this, especially the storyline. :)

[Clockarina of Tiem]

Good fun, love the Zelda references!

Nice movie, what a submission for Clock Day, it will do the collection proud. This movie actually was pretty entertaining without the gross humour (which isn't a bad thing) and endless violence. It was funny in some parts such as when Link was sort of fighting a goomba. This part and a few other parts like that gave me a good chuckle. The visuals were not technically stunning, but had a nice colourful style to them and you did Strawberry Clock justice.

Overall it was a good submission, and the great day in which its celebrating made it even better. Happy Clock Day!

ToiletRollClock responds:

Thanks man. That was really nice.
I admit it I'm not the best with graphics but I try to make up for it with the jokes. I tried to use crappy graphics to my advantage though by making the Zelda game look wonky.

Happy Clock Day, man. Hope you're having a good one.

[The Apocalypse Collab]

I really enjoyed this, everyone did well.

Great idea for this collaboration and I love how most authors executed it. The general style to the flash was entertaining but what really set this apart from many other collabs I have seen is some of the artists different interpretations of the Apocalypse. Some authors had something more common being the main subject of their clip such as the devil taking over while others did very interesting things such as making the Sun and Jupiter (the big guys in the solar system) pick on and kill Earth. Another very unique clip I can quickly recall is where the moon's husband, the Earth is exploding. The graphics were usually pretty good, none really stood out as being worse than another. The sound was just the 3 Linkin Park songs. I think one or two would have done nicely and then search for a third or fourth if necessary from a different artist.

Overall this was a great collab with a cool idea. It is always nice to see different animating styles come together in a movie like this. Way to go guys.

Rudy responds:

Thanks for your input, I really appreciate it. I liked the variety of styles as well, and I'm glad you do too. Your review means alot. Thanks so much.

[The Fart Button]

This movie was rather hilarious.

First thing to say is this flash had a funny idea that was indeed well executed. It was clever how you used something every user has seen at least once and thought about pressing and turned it into an overexaggerated movie in which the user thought way to much about pressing the button. Of course, the outcome was "accurate" as you say. Everything about this movie was funny in one way or another and I just loved how everything was over exaggerated as I said. The visuals were nicely done, though it would have been nice to see a slightly more detailed character, but he was pretty funny looking anyways. Everything about the sound was great as well, the sound effects, the voice acting and so on. The dialogue made the sound even better, the complex reason about whether or not he should press the fart button.

Overall this was a funny movie with a great idea within. Please keep up the good work, I want to see more!

altffour responds:

Thanks for the longer review, it's nice to see.

[StarFox excelent adventur]

Good but definitely not without its flaws.

There were some good things, and some bad things throughout this movie, but the final product still did manage to be entertaining. To start: I had mixed reactions about the visuals. While the drawings themselves were very nice, they was not quite enough to hold them up. The animation was a little awkward for me, all the movements were stiff and the characters didnt seem to have any limbs. The backgrounds did their job, but i would have still liked to see some more detail in them. Sadly, according to your authors comments you didnt draw the main characters/the spaceships: the things I found impressive. The sound was actually quite decent. The voice acting could use some going over a little here and there as well as the audio quality, but for the most part the sound effects and voices worked really well. The humour was alright at first but it kind of grew stale before the movie ended because each joke was pretty much of the same type: pointing out the games flaws in sentences. The jokes werent exactly incredibly original either.

This critique is just something that gives the wrong impression in my eyes, the movie seemed rushed for a few reasons. While the visuals, sound and the sheer length of the movie suggested there was effort put into it, the subtitles had many spelling errors and didnt really always match up with the dialogue. Another thing is you didnt have a real title, which makes it look a little less professional.

Overall, despite my many critisms, this was a fun movie to watch and there is plenty to say about it. I hope with your next submission you can improve on some things to ultimately better your score! 4/5

RogerregoRRoger responds:

Okay, thanks for your comments man.
Of course only the art I didn't make were good, why do you think I hired other illustrators to begin with ^^;
Tough by having someone else draw them, I was limited with movement freedom in the characters, resulting in the stiff animation.

Ah well, glad you liked the movie in general.

[HALOMEN Preview]

Hilarious, I cant wait!

I can not wait to see a first full episode of this series, this preview had all I would expect to see including the humour, clever idea, and even the visauls. I liked how the animation style was similar to that of TANKMEN and even the voices were similar as well. Though these two things were similar, however, you still managed to make this movie your own by adding in MasterChief among other things. The audio quality could have been improved but im sure that will be improved by the time the real video comes out. The humour was awesome, this is definitely one of the funnier movies I have seen recently, and this is only a preview!

Anyways I really am looking forward to this completed movie. Keep up the good work!

danomano65 responds:

i really appreciate ur detailed response. I like it when people tell me what was funny. I can aim to better the humor if parts are specified. Glad u liked it!

[Principled Depravity]

The coolest 3D movie on the site.

Overall this was the most stylish, and cinematic 3D movie I have seen on the entire site. Though it isnt without its imperfections the final product was superb on all levels. The visuals, to start, were very well done overall. I liked the use of really only black, white and grey to give it that sort of Sin City feel as you mentioned. The character design was cool, though perhaps a little rough around the edges, and it would be nice to have some backgrounds if you could manage. The camera angles were pretty well used for the most part as well, to kind of give the audience a different perspective on the scene, you even went first-person for a little bit! The action sequences all looked and sounded great, you were successful in making it seem as though there was really a lot of chaos happening on screen. While the voice acting was pretty decent it was still kind of hard to understand what they were saying because of the lower quality, but at least you put in subtitles. Other than that I loved everything about the sound including the gunshots and the great music.

Overall this was an awesome start to a possible new series. You should definitely continue this series and keep improving at what you do!

LogFish responds:

Thank you so much, what a nice review! I think I will continue it with this kind of reception :)

Thanks again, you're a great reviewer!